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Products

Projects as programs: A vision for long-term project success

Solvay: Scofield, R.

Process industries across the globe grapple with producing dozens or even hundreds of different products.

Address measurement uncertainty in pipelines and storage

TÜV SÜD: Robson, B.

How would you measure the volume of a can of soup? The height should work, but what about diameter? Or, you can possibly just trust what the manufacturer has told you on the label.

Construction

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has reached a full agreement with CCS JV, a JV between Chiyoda, McDermott and Saipem, for the development of its Mozambique Area 1 LNG terminal.

Business Trends: US RPET and sustainability goals—a reality check

Wood Mackenzie: Bermish, M.

Three primary drivers exist for recycling polyethylene terephalate (PET) bottles.

Editorial Comment: Embracing uncertainty for a better tomorrow

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

The downstream processing industry is changing.

Our waste is our resource—An initiative to turn all plastics bio-based

Pöyry: Nyman, T.

The vision is fully fossil-free plastics production.

The greening of the downstream industry: A carbon investment case for clean refining

Meridian Energy Group: Fonda, M.

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> was pleased to speak recently with Mark Fonda, Executive Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technical Officer for Meridian Energy Group, which is building two grassroots refineries in the US.

Electric vehicles are coming, but their impact will be evolutionary, not revolutionary

KBC Advanced Technologies, Inc.: George, S.  |  Routt, M.

Alternatively fueled vehicles (AFVs) are getting plenty of press these days, but their market penetration is still a long way from critical mass.

Next-generation catalyst improves reliability of LPG mercaptan extraction

Motiva Enterprises: Ahmed, S.
Honeywell UOP: Mulvaney, W.  |  Nair, M.  |  Rios, R.

For decades, sulfur reduction processes have been an integral part of refinery operations.

Executive Viewpoint: Trends in the global process furnace market

Axens: Grimaud, T.  |  Mustafa, N.

Whether it is heating process fluids to achieve enough temperature in crude atmospheric and vacuum distillation units, or reaction temperatures inside furnace tubes to produce ethylene, vinyl chloride monomer, synthetic gas and continuous catalytic reformer reactors, or simple process heating (thermal fluid), process furnaces play a critical role in refineries and petrochemical complexes.